​In recent years, many companies have implemented solutions to improve the balance between economically determined activity and private life, and made attempts to minimizside effects such as overworking and burnout. One of these ideas is remote work and limiting the number of hours spent at the office or even banning checking one’s e-mail outside office hours. All the same the string of notifications displayed by the portable devices we use provokes us to follow up unfinished assignments in our free time. Network and app access remove the necessity of physical contact with others but also generate new patterns of behaviour and habits, which result in being constantly on standby. Technology helps us delegate our actions to devices but at the same time makes us use them more often and longer than before. Will classic workspaces be replaced by drifting offices for digital nomads?

This exhibition presents visions of work-life balance with reference to technological automation. Selected issues are developed in a guidebook, which includes texts reflecting on the exhibited works and interviews about the habits and stereotypes of activity, creativity and time management available at newartcenter.info/vilnius